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Hello everyone, and welcome to the blog.

It is the intention of this blog to be a fun way to show off various conversions and troops i create using Wargames Atlantic products.

As some of you may know, I am a facebook group moderator and general community Liason for Wargames Atlantic (WGA.) WGA is a new and growing plastics manufacturer, focusing in 28mm kits.

I myself also love kitbashing and general conversion. Its about an equal love to painting, but i do enjoy the puzzle and build phase of miniatures.

At the time of this writing, we have just released 19th century afghan warriors, dark age irish, and ancient persians worldwide. My personal order of these boxes is in the post. I have quite a few different conversions planned using the figures, so i figured a blog would be a good idea.

But why post now, when I am still waiting on the shipment? Well, I have conversions i have done with WGA's previous boxed sets, and I figured i would show them off.

The majority of any sci fi offerings will be bent to use in my imperial army/collection for warhammer 40,000.

First, some conversions of the Grognards plastic kit:









Yes, that last one is an assassins creed assassin. I like to experiment and i had just completed a run through of Assassins creed syndicate when the Grognards arrived on my doorstep.

Next up, I've done several conversions of the Raumjager, but Tallarn are my favorite. These were made by removing the collar from the raumjager torso's and adding on a 3D printed head. I intend to diversify the heads with various ones from the afghan set when they arrive.





and yes, that sergeant is holding a bolter one handed. Rule of cool, yo.

On the Fantasy side, I've used the skeleton kit to expand my undead legions. I had spare black knight horses that i combined with the 1 skeleton per sprue that is in parts, to make cavalry. I also converted the heads on those to have a crest running down the back of the helm, rather than transverse.



I would welcome any commentary from any person. I enjoy making banter about minis.

Furthermore, if you have any questions about WGA, please feel free to ask and i will answer to the best of my abillity.

And I'm back!

I received my shipment of all the new releases today.i quickly took the opportunity to test out some conversions.

The first is a guardsman kitbashed between the Persian set and the grognards. The second is accounts as ratling who needs some more bitz I think.

These are a lot of fun! Persian guy looks nice and imposing

What head did you use on the Assassin? Was it from the Oathmark sneaky elves?


Maybe pouches or a scanner on the ratlings?

The Persian head looks great. I’ll have to pick some up to try some stuff.
Where are the skeleton horses from?

The Tallarns look like Tallarns to me, so mission accomplished. The other Imperial Guard also look great for their roles. Keep up the good work.

I like the Persian and Assassin's Creed guardsmen in particular. The latter seems like he could be Chaos Renegade guard (early stages, before mutation kicks in).

 BobtheInquisitor wrote:
What head did you use on the Assassin? Was it from the Oathmark sneaky elves?


Maybe pouches or a scanner on the ratlings?

The Persian head looks great. I’ll have to pick some up to try some stuff.
Where are the skeleton horses from?

The Tallarns look like Tallarns to me, so mission accomplished. The other Imperial Guard also look great for their roles. Keep up the good work.

Scanner is a good idea, thanks!

The skill is in horses are just black knight horses from games workshop. AlthoughI would never discount war games Atlantic working on some skeleton horses at some point in the future.

The head on the assassin is actually from the old old old games workshop Glade guard kit. I had a sprue laying about and inspiration struck.

Tonight's conversions:

More Persian conversions and three middle Eastern or Persian levy made from the dark age Irish box and Persian heads and weapons. The bucklers are from the skeleton warrior kit and are blue tacked on.

Maybe it’s the angle, but the proportions on your second wave of Persian Guard look much better than on the first guy. They look like they stepped right out of a Gaunt’s Ghosts book (as the guest regiment of the episode).

The Dark Age Irish torsoes seem pretty ideal for starting level fantasy characters.

 BobtheInquisitor wrote:
Maybe it’s the angle, but the proportions on your second wave of Persian Guard look much better than on the first guy. They look like they stepped right out of a Gaunt’s Ghosts book (as the guest regiment of the episode).

The Dark Age Irish torsoes seem pretty ideal for starting level fantasy characters.

oooh, i had not thought of the starting level characters idea! thats brilliant. Do note on two of the dark age irish i posted above i sheared a broach/clasp off of the chest because it didn't fit what i was going for.

One of my colleague actually suggested that with axes and the larger irish shields they would make good Dunlendings for LoTR.

I could see that, having plastic dunlendings would be pretty nice too

 amazingturtles wrote:
I could see that, having plastic dunlendings would be pretty nice too

Now the question is what colors to use to paint them.

Anywho: more progress on the Persian guard. With a little ingenuity and bits use, you can use the full 40 troops in the box

Command squad, special weapons squad with flamers, infantry squad.




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Comms officer






Medic





Grenadier

Conversion between the WGA skeleton and Irish kits.

extremely WIP paintjobs on everything painted below.

the previously shown irish skeletons.

some afghan skeleton conversions

and some mocked up and counts as dunlendings and haradrim for Lord of the rings

The haradrim came out really well. I think the dunlendings did, too, but I don't really remember how they were supposed to look.

You have some really interesting models in this thread. It's really cool (and probably pretty rare) that so many different ktis are compatible, scale-wise.

BobtheInquisitor wrote:The haradrim came out really well. I think the dunlendings did, too, but I don't really remember how they were supposed to look.

See below

The ancestors of the Dunlendings were also the ancestors of the Haladin, the second of the Three Houses of the Edain who led her people from East Beleriand to Brethil. They were a reclusive folk, dark-haired but smaller in stature than the Bëorians or the Hadorians. They kept separate from the other Men. Their language was different from the ones that used by the other Edain.

It is possible that the rivalry between the primitive Dunlendings and the blond-haired, pseudo-Anglo-Saxon Rohirrim who migrated into the lands neighboring them was meant by Tolkien to be analagous to the real life conflicts that arose between the Anglo-Saxons in England and neighboring Celtic peoples.

This is supported by the fact that placenames of Bree-land like Bree, Archet and Combe are Celtic. The Stoor Hobbits (who had stayed long in Dunland), have Celtic elements in their names. Tolkien mentioned that the survival of traces of the older language of the Stoors and the Bree-men resembled the survival of Celtic elements in England.

JoshInJapan wrote:You have some really interesting models in this thread. It's really cool (and probably pretty rare) that so many different ktis are compatible, scale-wise.

Its a great thing when a company tries to make thier miniatures with possible converting in mind.

speaking of:

Late Romans out of Persians.
Persian bodies
Gripping beast Saxon thegn heads. Arms a combination of fireforge men at arms and gripping beast thegns
Shields from the Irish set.
Boom.

2 germans in winter dress as a form of conversion in the vein of iron harvest.

1 death korps of krieg proxy/militia

5 totally not sikh sepoy's from the new germans and the afghans

Those Wargames Atlantic kits look like pretty decent value for money, based on what I saw on their site. A little lacking in selection perhaps, but it looks like they plan to add more stuff. The Raumjagers look like good DKoK or Armageddon Steel Legion counts-as, and the Grognards look like decent not-Mordians.

I definitely like your conversions and paintjobs; a good showcase of what you can do with these kits!

 ZergSmasher wrote:
Those Wargames Atlantic kits look like pretty decent value for money, based on what I saw on their site. A little lacking in selection perhaps, but it looks like they plan to add more stuff. The Raumjagers look like good DKoK or Armageddon Steel Legion counts-as, and the Grognards look like decent not-Mordians.

I definitely like your conversions and paintjobs; a good showcase of what you can do with these kits!

Sci fi British are in the Pipeline, which will have a more